New Protection Mechanisms for Intellectual Property in Reconfigurable Logic
Tim Güneysu, Bodo Möller, Christof Paar
Proceedings: 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines. IEEE, 2007, pp. 287-288, Napa, California, April 23-25, 2007.
Abstract
The distinct advantage of SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is their ?exibility for con- ?guration changes. But this opens up the threat of Intellectual Property (IP) theft since the system con?guration is stored in easy-to-access Flash memory. High-end FPGAs have already been extended with symmetric-key decryption engines used to load an encrypted version of the con?guration that cannot simply be copied and used without knowledge of the secret key. However, with respect to business and licensing processes, this protection system lacks a convenient scheme for key transport and installation
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